1Renal Disaster Relief Task Force (RDRTF) for Turkey, 2RDRTF of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), 3Department of Internal Medicine/Nephrology, Istanbul School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, 4Renal Disaster Relief Task Force European Branch, Department of Internal Medicine/Nephrology, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium and 5Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Universit...

Post-disaster humanitarian relief is full of importance, complexity and difficulty, which makes people pay more attentions to various disaster measures emergency management practices related preventions reductions. The main purpose protect the lives victims in affected areas provide with indispensable materials survive from unexpected disaster. Therefore, this paper puts its focus on some key d...

This paper studies the effect of branching rules (BR) and heuristic algorithms (HA) to find feasible solutions for a branch and bound (BB) algorithm used to solve sub-problems in a parallel two-phase branch and bound (PTBB) approach. The nine PTBB algorithms, which are developed by varying 3 combinations of BR and HA strategies, are tested on the facility location-transportation problem for dis...

The rapid growth of location-based social networks (LBSNs) has greatly enriched people’s urban experience through social media and attracted increasing number of users in recent years. Typical location-based social networking sites allow users to “check in” at a physical place and share the location with their online friends, and therefore bridge the gap between the real world and online social...

Stock prepositioning is one of the most important issues in preparedness stage of emergency logistics response. In a previous research, a stock prepositioning model to support an emergency disaster relief response in the event of earthquake has been proposed. Since the results contained zero proportion of some type of item, which is not allowed in a real system, an improvement of the model is n...

abstract background: today disasters are a part of many people’s lives. iran has a long history of disaster events and nurses are one of the most significant groups within the iranian disaster relief operations, providing immediate and long-term care for those affected by the disaster. however, the technical competence of iranian nurses and their training for this work has received little atten...

Energy psychology utilizes cognitive operations such as imaginal exposure to traumatic memories or visualization of optimal performance scenarios—combined with physical interventions derived from acupuncture, yoga, and related systems—for inducing psychological change. While a controversial approach, this combination purportedly brings about, with unusual speed and precision, therapeutic shifts...

In a large-scale disaster relief mission, a variety of personnel and organizations with different expertise take part in the relief activities towards a common goal. Interactions between them are important to promote efficiency, and the relief activities, especially search and rescue (SAR) activities, are carried out in a short time period. Some Emergency Offices of City/State/Federal governmen...